The City of Edinburgh will be the first to host an international promotion event of Rotterdam's innovative cultural policies for enforcing the participation of artists in heightening a city's competitiveness and securing social peace on the local level.

The essay 'Neo-Liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism' is published in the book volume 'Culture and Contestation in the New Century'.

Read more about the Kanunnik Triest Square (designed by architects De Vylder Vinck Taillieu) in the Caritas psychiatric centre (Melle) and how it results from a participative process with psychiatrists, managers, staff, and patients.

An international symposium of european organizations operating in urban space.

REGISTRATION OPEN

write to: urbanity@ccea.cz

or call: 00420 222 222 521

The symposium asks what the nonprofit organizations are today and questions their role in the creation of city space. Are they nonelected groups of interest promoting their own interpretation of public good? Or do they represent a litmus paper of the level of democracy in the society?Invited organizations transform the city space on different levels – from local to the whole-city projects, with a narrow or global point of view.

One day workshop focusing to the activism will target all speakers and participants of the symposium Shaping Cities.

23.05.2012 WORKSHOP

HUB Prague, Drtinova 10, Prague

REGISTRATION OPEN

write to: urbanity(at)ccea.cz, or call: 00420 222 222 521

coordinator: Karin Grohmannova

Workshop program is divided to three groups lead by different initiatives of artists, architects and activists. Act Globally, Act Locally and Community Act are frame for three “manifestos” that will be developed by each group. Workshop is experimental, its format is open and non-defined till the last moment.

Global Act with Gideon Boie (BAVO, Belgium)

Local Act with Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen (Stealth, Netherlands)

Community Act with Lorenzo Romito and Giulia Fiocca (Stalker, Italy)

09:30–16:00 work in 3 groups

14:00–16:00 presentation with debate

The symposium and the workshop are a part of resite festival.

The symposium and the workshop are supported by Österreichisches Kulturforum Prag, Goethe Institut Prag and the Embassy of Sweden, Embassy od Netherlands